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In Utero
: I listen a lot of CDs every day but none of them had such an impact on me and especially the way IN UTERO did.It includes songs with deep meanings such as "RAPE ME" that make it really special.Cobain showed to the audience how sensitive he really was.His lyrics and his music made this album one of the best I've ever listened and trust me I've listened plenty!
The undisputed champion of grunge slash punk slash hard rock. Live on, Kurt Cobain.
Serve the Servants - 5/5 not the song I'd choose to start the album but the drearing droning chorus is brilliance.
Scentless Apprentice - 5/5 disturbing with kurt screaming his lungs out with some mad screeching guitars- it's here that you start to realize the difference between this album and Nevermind. i like the line "You can't fire me I quit!"
Heart-Shaped Box - 4/5 tenth or so time listen around you'll start noticing some of the holes in this song but it's still a really, really catchy track.
Rape Me - 5/5 not much to sai about this one but it has a great pickup in the first minute or so.
Frances Farmer Will Have Her Revenge On Seattle - 3/5 so-so nothing special ish.
Dumb - 5/5 i fell in love with this song the first time I heard it. Great cello work.
Track 7 - 3/5 i don't remember this one that well so I'm thinking it's a more unremarkable track.
Milk It - 5/5 one of the best, most hard tracks on the album great unique form and screaming vocals
Pennyroyal Tea - 6/5 might just be the greatest Nirvana song ever people seem to think this track as more mainstream than some of the grungier harder songs on the album but if you take a close listen at some of the dreary lyrics here, you'll realize the utter tragedy of it all
Radio Friendly Unit Shifter - 4/5 nice opening, but I didn't quite like this one as much as the others
Tourette's - 5/5 one last hard as nails hardcore track before the end and damn what a song
All Apologies - 5/5 great, great, great, great, great ending to a great, great, great, great, great x10 album
With In Utero, Nirvana went out with not a whimper but a bang, and a large one at that.
 Nirvana was a great band. nirvanas final album was a great one. the commercialism of nevermind was gone. kobain brought back the intensity of bleach but came up with a sound no other band has ever had and probably never have. his albums never getold. the spirit and intensity of the music never dies. it always stays with us
This is a massive work of art. Everything that you hate about phony rock & roll can be wiped clean by one listen to "In Utero", one of the rawest, cathartic and most emotionally-truthful experiences in all of rock music. A recent issue of GUITAR WORLD described the production on the album as "a bad root canal", which should be taken as high praise. Songs like "Scentless Apprentice" and "tourette's" kick out the jams in high punk fashion, but with a fury that is too often missing from current-day 'moderate rock'. Sure, you can hate Cobain for giving in to his demons, but be sure to thank him for one of the greatest ... albums ever created. I'd take it over "Nevermind" any day of the week.
If you do not own any NIRVANA CD's but want one to start with I suggest this one. Bleach is for the die-hards that are into a very heavy guitar-based album, Nevermind is great but over-polished and commercial, Unplugged is also a classic that shows the bands talent, Incesticide is B-Sides with some absolutely amazing songs (Aneurysm, Big Long Now) and Wishkah....well let's just say a much better live album could have been put together. However In Utero shows the real songwriting ability that Kurt Cobain possessed. For me this CD ranks him up with John Lennon for talent. From the opening note of Serve The Servants to the trailing off of "All in all is all we are" from All Apologies, this CD remains strong throughout. There are no weak spots on this entire disc. tourette's shows their true punk roots, Frances Farmer Will Have Her Revenge On Seattle tells an amazing true story, Very Ape should have been a single, Rape Me is one of the greatest verse chorus verse songs ever written, Heart-Shaped Box is the ultimate dropped-D song and Radio Friendly Unit Shifter may be my all-time favorite NIRVANA song. Do yourself a favor. If you don't have this CD, get it. Forget any pre-conceived notions you may have about Kurt and just lose yourself in his genius.
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